Tufting-button.



PATENTED APR. 7, 1908. J. W. GUNTHER. TUFTING BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED APR. 17 1907'. v

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JOSEPH W. GUNTHER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

TUFTING-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed. April 17, 1907. Serial No. 368,707.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. GUNTHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Tuftin Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to upholstering buttons of that type in which double heads are provided that are fastened to a metal connecting member that extends through the cushion or upholstering.

The invention has for one of its objects to improve and simplify the construction of devices of this character, so as to be comparatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture, convenient and easy to apply and thoroughly efiective in use.

A further object of the invention is the .ing device coin rising a button head having a link connectec therewith and a second head that is adapted to be ap lied to the link and firmlysecured thereto a ter the link has been passed through the cushion or upholstery. With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully described ereinafter and set forth with particularity in the appended claims. In the accompanying drawing which illustrates one of the embodiments of the invention:Figure.1 is a perspective View of the tufting button or fastener. Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are sectional views of a portion of a cushion, showing the method of applying the button. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modified form of fastener.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a button which may be constructed'of metal or covered with any suitable material, such as that of which the cushion is made and on the back thereof is a metal plate or disk 2 having centrally spaced raised portions 3, forming pintle receiving sockets. In one of the sockets is a pintle 4 of the link 5, the ends of the latter adjacent the pintle being confined between the sockets 3, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The link 5, which is preferably a piece of wire, is thus hingedly connected with a button head 1. The opposite end of the link 5 is connected with a second button head 6, which may be made of metal or covered in any suitable manner, as desired. The back plate of the button head is stamped to form a pintle receiving socket 8 and the keeper 9 which serves to hold the intle 10 of the link in the socket after the utton head 6 has been applied. A tufting button or fastening of this character is ofstrong and durable construction and the heads freely yield or give to one side or the other, underthe movement of a person resting on the cushion.

n practice, the tufting fastener is ut up for the market with the head 1 app ied or fixed to the link 5 and the free end of the link is straight, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The end of the link may be beveled as indicated at 11 so as to assist in guiding the workmen in turning the end in the proper direction to form the pintle 10. To apply a tuftin fastener, a needle 12 havinga socket 13 is p aced on the link 5, and the needle is thrust through the cushion in the manner to the position shown in Fig. ,2. An anvil or block 14. is then placed under the button head 1 and pressure is applied to the top of the cushion so as to press the latter into the osition shown in Fig 3 and the needle is t on removed so as to expose the upper portion of the member 5. The top button 6, which normally has its keeper 9 bent outwardly at right angles to the back plate is a plied by inserting the extremity of the member 5 into the socket 8. After this is done, the button is drawn through 90 so as to bend or form the pintle 10. After this is accomplished, the keeper or lug 9 is bent down toward the plate 7 and behind the straight portion of the ink 5 thereby holding the pintle 10 in the socket 8. After this operation, the head 6 can be adjusted to the position shown in Fig. 4, thus completing the application of the tufting button or fastener in a simple and expeditious manner.

In Fig.- 5, the pintles of the link 5 are bent in the same direction, whereas in the fastening shown in Fig. 1, the pintles extend in opposite directions, and the upholsterer can adopt his method of forming the pintle 10 as he refers.

rom the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of o eration will be readily apparent to those skillbd in the art to which the invention pertains and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes can be made when desired as are within the scope of the claims.

What is claimed, is

1. A tufting button comprising a pair of heads having metal back plates provided with pintle receiving sockets pressed out therefrom, a link having its extremities bent into intles disposed at right angles to the len til of the link for engagement with the soc ets, and means on one of the back lates for detachably holding one of the piniiles in its socket.

2. A tufting button comprising a pair of heads having metal back plates provided with pintle receiving sockets, a wire link having its ends bent into parallel pintles engaging in the sockets, and a kee er attached to one of the lates to hold t e adjacent pintle in its soc ret.

3. A tufting button com rising a head having a back late provide with a socket and a bendable reeper thereon, and a connecting link adapted to enter the socket and to be bent into a pintle, the said keeper adapted to be bent into engagement with the link thereof as formed.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH WV. GUNTHER.

W'itnesses:

Mrs. A. LARRY, L. A. HARRIS. 

